Hauteville - Relief Data Incomplete

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Genre	Progressive Rock/Pop	Lydie Gosselin	Vocals
Tracks	10	Denis Turmel	Guitar
Runningtime	55 Min.	Didier Therry	Guitar
Label	Lion Music	L. Ober/D. Therry	Bass
Release	19 May 2006	Vincent Turmel	Drums
Country	France	Didier Therry	Keyboards
Similar artists	---

Hauteville is yet another new and fresh sounding band from France that is unveiled thanks to Lion Music. Just recently the very same label released a record by another good band from the same country in the shape of Venturia. Even if the mentioned bands safely can be filed in the progressive genre, Hauteville has nothing to do with metal. Their progressive music includes elements from a lot of different genres, pop and rock mainly though, and this makes them quite interesting and unique. Hauteville's strongest asset is probably the female singer Lydie Gosselin. She might not have the best voice technically speaking but she most certainly has charisma and an own identity.

Despite the fact that they have got the right tools Hauteville doesn't engage my interest that much. The reason for this is that the song writing is way behind the capacity of the band. They create interesting music that they perform in a quite satisfying way but the songs lack melodies that stick or infectious arrangements. It doesn't matter if your car is shiny and new when the engine doesn't work, right? The highlight of the album is without a doubt Immaculate Eyes, a composition that originally was made and performed by Dalbello (a unique lady who recorded high quality albums in the eighties) which should speak for itself. Hauteville is a band with high potential but without songs to use these conditions.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
6	7	5

Summary
5,5 chalices of 10 - Hawk